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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient town of southeast Italy where Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the name of a battle in which Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 b. c. Called also
battle of Cannae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC
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Examples
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The horror of Cannae is almost indescribable -- war at close quarters, a matter of sticking and slashing and bashing and, once down, of suffocating in the slime of it all.
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010
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These good measures were defeated by the importunity of Varro; whom, when they were both come to the army, nothing would content but a separate command, that each consul should have his day; and when his turn came, he posted his army close to Hannibal, at a village called Cannae, by the river Aufidus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Included are a move-by-move "replay" of Cannae and data for applying the model to 35 other battles.
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The greatest "mass knife fight in history," as Robert L. O'Connell calls it, took place on Aug. 2, 216 B.C. at Cannae in Italy.
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010
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Included are a move-by-move "replay" of Cannae and data for applying the model to 35 other battles.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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How would I write of an event like at Cannae, when seventy thousand Romans were cut, stabbed, trampled and suffocated to death in the dusty heat of summer afternoon?
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Before then, though, study Cannae, not for what it teaches about war but about men.
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010
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Thus, O'Connell tells us in his book, "The Ghosts of Cannae," Hannibal has been studied for his military genius by other military men down through the ages.
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010
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Hannibal's encircling tactics at Cannae were brilliantly conceived and executed, although for what purpose is impossible to say.
Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010
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That has always been the easiest rule of thumb, making a clash like Cannae 216 B.C., where the Carthaginians liquidated a Roman army, the embodiment of a decisive battle.
How the Battle Was Won, if Not Yet the War Alexander Rose 2011
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